Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-06-18
That New Phillipebura PAPER.

1t seems pretty certain that Capt.
COVingtOn and two or three other par
ties viii soon begin the publication Of
another paper in Phillip8burg. Now
We fully eOaeeds their right 70 engage
in the newspaper business in Phillips
burg or any other place. but we wish to
make some observations and give q few
reasons TO support our opinion that it is
not a wise movement on the part Of our
friends.
1t Is evident to all that the field is
already well occupied. There are now
two papers here and ten in the county.
No one can dispute the fact that, con
sidering the population Of town and
county, that is heavy enough tax on the
pubic. The third paper is surely not
needed by the business men for adYer-
Using purposes, for we know that they
have abundant facilities IN that line.
1t must be then, that COVingtOn & Co,
desire to have another paper for pOlt-
ical purposes only.
They are not printers. whOs having
spent years in learning the trade, de-
sire to follow the printing business as a
means Of earning a livelihood, but they
have other business and depend on
other resources for their living. They
want a paper for pOlities-tO fight the
battles Of some sold chum'' or some
one Of their own number who is seek
ing political promotion. We doubt if
our new newspaper friends haYe care
fully looked over the whole situation.
Had they done so they certainly would
have seen that the two papers already
here are more home and local papers
than political, that though run by prac-
teal printers who do their own work,
yet they earn their owners no more
than bare living; that to support two
newspapers is = heavy enough tax on
the business men and general public.
They ought to know, il they do not,
that it takes money and lots Of it TO
keep even a weekly paper going, and
that politics, even democratic politics
alone, viii not pay printers wages, pa
per bills, rent, &c.
There are not democrats enough to
make the third paper in Phillipsburg a
financial success. OfcOurse they would
expect support from republicans as well
as democrats, but if they think soberly
q moment it may occur to them that
starting a paper not for business so
much as for politics, they could hardly
expect when the struggle comes for ex-
istence between the three papers, that
republicans will desert their own party
papers in order to aid the new demo-
cratic journal to make financial ends
meet.
We are not a prophet nor the son Of
one, but We will venture the prediction
that the stockholders in the new Dem
Ocratic Organ viii, at the end OF six or
more months, not think it so funny to
be prOprietOrs Of a newspaper as they
had anticipated it would be,
Now, after al, is there any pressing
necessity to make great hurrah about
politics in county affairs?
The HERALD has heretofore as a mat
ter Of news printed the proceedings Of
the democratic conventions, given the
names Of that party's candidates, and
frequently inserted articles by request
Of our democratic friends. So long as
they have no democratic paper we will
continue to do these things.
Again, and in conclusion we ask: Is
it necessary for the people to be burden
ed with another newspaper, the bust
ness men impOrtuned for several hun
bred dollars more of advertising, the
community stirred up till neighbOr gets
neighbOr by the ears oyer some pOliti-
cal and personal contention. and till
we have three weak, half starved strug-
Cling papers, instead Of one or two
well supported healthy ones, and ali
this that one or two, or half dozen, poll
ticians may have a chance to air their
grievances or that they may thereby be
boosted into an Office?
We commend the following to our
democratic friends who contemplate
starting another paper in Phillipsburg:
Among the neyyanqY1ar man of Kansas